Remember when people wanted D&D cancelled because they thought it was devil worship? It's kind of the same thing, people project their ideas upon something in order to demonize it.I mean, I've been hearing "always evil races are lazy and dumb"/"what are you, liberal?" since I started playing RPGs 20 years ago, from ye ol' grognards who occasionally sat at the same table as Gygax (or so they claim)
It should've been changed 20 years ago because "is it evil for a Paladin to shank an orc baby and would they lose their special Good Guy powers for doing so" is a stupid ass argument to see play out in real life.
This is a fantasy game, and orcs and dark elves are just the atypical bad guys so the game gives them the baseline foundations to be that. There are play groups in which the players are the evil force in the world. That's why they made "evil" races playable. Again it's just basic lore to give people jumping off points.
I don't think anyone who plays D&D, or is familiar with the game from something like Critical Role, has ever looked at it and thought it was racist or satanic. These types of claims always come from groups from the outside looking in.
Shouldn't context mean something? Intention? Even if the Orcs are written in a way that you could stretch it out to equal a real life allegory, do people really think Wizards wrote it to be diliberately racist? Especially since that company is shown how quick they are to as inclusive as possible to special communities.
And more to your original point here, yes the original D&D lore wasn't written well and things have certainly changed and evolved over the years. However the writing of this lore can only get to a certain point, because once you over detail it you remove player agency for using that lore as a backbone to make it their own. That's kind of the point of it, be generic inspiration so that dungeon masters can craft it to fit whatever style of game they are playing.
It's getting out of hand honestly.
As Anita Sarkesian said, "Everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic...." And she has taught a whole movement of people that, yeah, if you want to you can find an offense in anything and everything. These people have found ways to gain fame, headlines, and also destroy careers, products, and hobbies, of people and things they don't like.
I don't believe any company, or person, should bow the knee to these groups because they are their own hate group. A hate group that gets results because they appear to have some moral high ground, which frankly there is nothing moral about it.
We have freedoms in the modern world, and one of those is the right to say anything you want. Even if it's ugly. If DnD books wrote Orcs as a direct corrilation to a real life race of people, then that's the right of the company. And if you don't agree or think it is poor taste, you can not support it. The same goes for video games and movies and whatever else.
Remember the outrage when a cake shop refused to make a cake for a gay wedding? The store got news coverage and the media portrayed them as evil bigots, when it was just a couple of people who didn't agree with gay marriage because of their religion. They have a right to refuse service to people, all businesses do. But that gay couple got media attention for causing outrage and another cake shop offered to make their wedding cake for fucking free. Hmmmm.......now doesn't that make you think a little? Wedding cakes are expensive. This cake shop doesn't want to make a cake because we're gay, let's report them for sympathy points and maybe we can profit on the outrage. Ding free cake. That saves like $500 from the wedding cost.
Ultimately that's the question I ask myself when it comes to this stuff. Are they getting something out of being outraged? Or are they just trying to flex some kind of influence over something that isn't a big deal?